1.“ναυσὶ δ᾽ οὔτε πεζὸς ἰών κεν εὕροις ἐς Ὑπερβορέων ἀγῶνα θαυμαστὰν ὁδόν” P. 10.30 “μυρίαι δ᾽ ἔργων καλῶν τέτμανθ̓ — κέλευθοι καὶ πέραν Νείλοιο παγᾶν καὶ δἰ Ὑπερβορέους” (“τὰ δὲ ἑκατέρωθεν παρείληφε πέρατα, τὴν σύμπασαν οἰκουμένην θέλων εἰπεῖν Σ.”) I. 6.23 “ναόν: τὸν μὲν Ὑπερβορ[έοις] ἄνεμος ζαμενὴς ἔμειξ”[ (cf. Paus., 10. 5. 9, of the second Delphic temple of Apollo) Pae. 8.63 v. also “Ἄβαρις”, fr. 270.
Ὑπερβόρεοι a people living far to the north (O. 3.31), favourites of Apollo, from whom Herakles received the olive shoots, whose leaves were the prize at Olympia, v. O. 3.13ff., P. 10.31ff. “δᾶμον Ὑπερβορέων πείσαις Ἀπόλλωνος θεράποντα λόγῳ” (sc. “Ἡρακλέης”) O. 3.16